An Overview of Early Settlement in Western Virginia
Social and Industrial Life in Early Settlements
Rural Life
"Folk Medicine"
Native American Clashes With European Settlers
Sketches by Joseph H. Diss Debar
Settlement Illustrations
Batts and Fallam Expedition
Sources on Alexander Spotswood
Description of Spotswood's Transmontane Expedition
Journal of John Fontaine
"The Virginians of the Valley"
"Virginia Frontier Defenses, 1719-1795"
Proposals of George Clendenin for the Frontier Defense of Western Virginia
Morgan Morgan Organizes Militia
Sources on Morgan Morgan
"The Lead Plates" (Celeron de Blainville)
Translation of Lead Plate (Celeron de Blainville)
George Washington's Notes on Survey of William Warden Lands
Deed For Land Conveyed from Lord Fairfax to William Warden
"Early Land Grants and Settlers Along Patterson Creek"
An Example of a Fairfax Land Grant
George Washington Acquires His First Land in Present-Day West Virginia
Colonial Council of Virginia: The Loyal Company
Journal of Thomas Walker
Battle of the Trough
D. A. R. Hold Annual Picnic at Frankfort
"Fragment of the Old Frontier"
"New Interpretations of Fort Seybert"
Description of the Fort Seybert Massacre, From Chronicles of Border Warfare
"Pendleton Indian Massacre One of History's Worst"
Incorporation of Romney and Shepherdstown
Proclamation of 1763
Royal Proclamation of 1763
"Cornstalk's Raid on the Greenbrier - 1763"
"John Ewing and the Clendenin Massacre"
John Stuart's Account of the Clendenin Massacre
Sources on Christopher Gist
"An Incident: A Scrap of Border History"
Massacre of Logan's Family
Sources on Logan
"Logan: A Friend of the White Man"
Sources on Cornstalk
Fighting Chief Cornstalk's Remains Laid To Rest Again"
Battle of Point Pleasant
"'Manufactured History': Re-Fighting the Battle of Point Pleasant"
"Colonel William Fleming in Dunmore's War, 1774"
Dunmore's War: Primary Documents
"Fort Morris Was Virginia Defense Post"
Native American Clashes with European Settlers
"The Earliest Printed Version of David Morgan and the Two Indians"
1777 Roster of Captain Haymond's Company, Monongalia County Militia
Attack on Fort Randolph: Narrative by Captain John Stuart
Attack on Fort Randolph: William McKee to Edward Hand
Attack on Fort Randolph: Matthew Arbuckle to Edward Hand
History of Fort Randolph
Dedication of Reconstructed Fort Randolph
The Attack on Fort Donnally
John Stuart's Description of the Attack on Fort Donnally
Defense of Andrew Donnally's Actions During the Attack on Fort Donnally
"Fort Donnally"
Anne Royall's Description of Dick Pointer
Emancipation of Dick Pointer
Claypool's Rebellion
Claypool's Rebellion: Primary Documents
Revolutionary War and Its Aftermath
Revolutionary War: Primary Documents
Researching Your Revolutionary War Ancestor
Will of Charles Lee
"Vandalia: The First West Virginia?"
"Two Hundred Years in the Telling"
Sources on the Wizard Clip
"Wizzard Clip"
Masthead of the Potomak Guardian, 1798
Sources on Anne Bailey
Anne Bailey: Typescript Biography by Ambler
Description of Anne Bailey
"Anne Bailey," by Virgil A. Lewis
"Mad Ann, The Huntress"
"A Captive of the Shawnees, 1779-1784"
Sources on Mary Draper Ingles
"Mary Ingles' Escape Story Like 'Thriller' Fiction Tale"
Elizabeth Zane's Daring Run
Sources on Elizabeth Zane
"Kids Erected Memorial to Betty Zane: Story of Famous Dash With Powder Carried in History"
"Story of Fort Henry"
"Betty Zane, Lydia Boggs, and Molly Scott: The Gunpowder Exploits at Fort Henry"
Images of Elizabeth Zane at Fort Henry
"The Death of Major Samuel McColloch: Historical Record and Oral History"
"Battle of Captina: A Scrap of Border History"
"First Settlement at Grave Creek"
"First Duel in the Valley of the Kenawha"
Establishment of Fort Lee at Charleston
Sources on Jesse Hughes
"West Virginia Sketch Book-Drawing of Jesse Hughes' Cabin"
Sources on Lewis Wetzel
"Adventure of Lewis Wetzel"
"Lewis Wetzel: Warfare Tactics on the Frontier"
"Daniel Boone In The Kanawha Valley"
Daniel Boone: Facts And Incidents Not Hitherto Published
1791 Survey By Daniel Boone
Sources on Simon Girty
"Famous Traitor Simon Girty Was Here"
James Rumsey Demonstrates His Steamboat
"A Short Treatise on the Application of Steam," by James Rumsey
Sources on Nancy Hanks Lincoln
Shepherdstown Considered For Nation's Capital
History of the Whiskey Rebellion
Edward Smith to Edward Carrington, August 17, 1794 (Whiskey Rebellion)
Proclamation by the Governor of Virginia, August 19, 1794 (Whiskey Rebellion)
Benjamin Wilson to Governor Henry Lee, September 2, 1794 (Whiskey Rebellion)
Charleston Becomes an Official City
John George Jackson Escapes a Deadly Fire
Birth of Harman Blennerhassett
"Chronicle of the Life of Harman Blennerhassett"
Sources on Harman and Margaret Blennerhassett
"Ohio River Baroness Returns to Her Early 18th Century Home"
Sources on Tecumseh
"Famed Tecumseh Was a West Virginian"
"The Cranes of Greenbrier County"
Religion in Western Virginia
Resources on Francis Asbury
"Statue of Bishop Francis Asbury Erected in Washington"

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